Two families -- both hardworking, both raising kids -- experienced vastly different outcomes when they purchased the same home. One family bought at the height of the housing boom. The other, years later near the bottom of the housing crash.

Matthew Siddall and his wife, Elizabeth, paid $750,000 for the four-bedroom, two-story house on Hunter Lane in 2005. Then the market crashed, Elizabeth's clients stopped calling or were unable to pay their bills and her business failed. They lost the home in the fall of 2010.

Todd and Julie Newton bought the home from an investment group in 2011, paying $680,000.

In all, lenders seized more than 45,000 Orange County homes through foreclosure since January 2007. Thousands more were forced to sell their homes at a loss or turn their keys over to lenders.

The home on Hunter Lane is emblematic of what happened to these people during the Great Recession.

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